Sentence examples for question prevailing from inspiring English sources

Merkel's greatest failing, says Charles Grant, of the pro-European thinktank Centre for European Reform, is that she's either unwilling or unable to question prevailing German orthodoxies.

Even in a self-proclaimed Islamic republic, however, all citizens, Muslims as well as non-Muslims, must be free to debate the role of religion and to question prevailing orthodoxies without fear of being subjected to trials, prison or death.

"Artists have always had a capacity to reflect on these questions, to question prevailing orthodoxies, especially political orthodoxies," says Enwezor. "If you look at authoritarian regimes, the first people they want to ban are artists and writers".

Its objective is to help them question prevailing gender norms and to break the association between masculinity and violence.

"The tragedy here is that artists (and yes, I consider comedians artists — some more gifted than others) are being confronted for doing precisely what their function in society is, and has always been: challenge authority, question prevailing attitudes and mores, and tap specifically into perspectives that are not necessarily 'acceptable' to voice".

In the 1940s, in a discussion of T. S. Eliot's densely allusive poem "The Waste Land," the formalist critics William K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley questioned prevailing assumptions about the value of allusion-hunting.

The book also provided a model of radical environmental activism that questioned prevailing attitudes about the benefits of scientific progress and the attitude that humans should take toward nature.

The study questioned prevailing views of how transcription of a gene's DNA begins in bacteria.

In recent years scholars have questioned prevailing narratives about clear theoretical traditions in the discipline of international relations.

This study facilitates understanding the questions prevailing in solar thermal collector technology, diagnosing new research directions towards further improvement of the performance, addressing the important issues related to architectural barriers, system design and installation.

Brooks says that the "are we better off" question is the prevailing question and that people are more concerned with long term debts than short term maladies.